Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int

Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Mon, 19 May 2025 10:25:51 +0200

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Hi Adrian,

On Mon, 19 May 2025 at 10:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:03 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > On Mai 19 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >
> > > Good idea. I will do that. My assumption is that on Linux, GCC developers
> > > actually just forgot to switch alignment from 2 to 4 bytes with the switch
> > > to ELF unlike NetBSD.
> >
> > The Linux developers care about backward compatilibity.
>
> That makes no sense though as a.out and ELF binaries are not compatible, are they?

The syscall ABI is.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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